INIS Series, INIS Series, 2022, Special Edition
Title:
Homiletic Cultural Heritage and Contemporary Preaching Practice
Autor(s):
Ventsislav Popivanov, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", Bulgaria, v_popivanov@abv.bg
Abstact:
Christian homiletics as theological art of church preaching is an interesting part of Bulgarian and world cultural heritage through the ages. Documented homilies are material tangible heritage as scriptural monuments of literature history. Oral homiletic tradition is live sacred rhetoric heritage transmitted by church culture, and perfected along religious practice even in times of persecutions, when it would need decades and generations to recover the link of clergy with people by sacred speeches based on works of Holy Fathers and Church Teachers, and on individual God-inspired original creativity. Contemporary homilies and preaching practices as communication between pastors and flock are heritage in risk, because large part of them remains non-documented and not sufficiently analysed as cultural experience. Nowadays the art of bringing divine messages and evangelization of people is transmitted and documented by media, recorded and available to everyone, live, and archived. That innovation supports memory, informational, educational, socialisation, and other effects that enlarge actual and potential publics in space and time.
Keywords:
Homiletic Heritage, Preaching Effectiveness, Church Rhetoric, Bulgarian Orthodox Church, Pastoral Vocation, Bulgarian Literature, Practical Theology,
PDF file address:
http://www.math.bas.bg/vt/inis/series/book/2022.se/inis.2022.se06.pdf
Cite (APA style):
Popivanov, V. (2022). Homiletic Cultural Heritage and Contemporary Preaching Practice, INIS Series, 2022, Special Edition, ISSN 2815-4231, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 97-112.